Thursday, April 30, 2015

Thank you everyone for joining in our ANYTHING GOES challenge this month.All of the projects entered were fantastic and gave the DT a tough job in deciding a winner,we narrowed down our top choices and have come up with a DT's Choice winner.

Our April 2015 Winner is

GRANNE WITH 2 WONDERFUL ENTRIES

Congratulations ! You've won a $15 digi voucher to the Smeared Ink shop.

Please email us at smearedinkstamps@gmail.com to claim your voucher, also please grab your winner's badge code by clicking the link at the top of the page.

As most of you know Smeared Ink is closing their doors for a while, we hope that they will be making a return after a break. In the mean time there will still be challenges on here every month so please check back tomorrow for the details of May's challenge.

I would also like to say a big thank you to all you fans and supporters of Smeared Ink, you mean a lot to all of here and we hope you will all continue to help us keep the Smeared Ink name alive.

Wednesday, April 29, 2015

A huge THANK YOU for playing in our April challenge, you really keep us on our toes and picking a winner is going to be hard yet again! Check back tomorrow for the April winner announcement and don't forget that our new challenge starts on Friday May 1st!

Monday, April 27, 2015

Hey all today I have a piece that I have made to surprise my daughter. She loves to doodle, draw, and write in and on everything. So with a bit of creative deconstruction (complements of our very own BD) I have made her a book she can ink up to her hearts desire

I have some paper out of my stash that I used TH paint dabbers on to add a bit of color
Purple leather and a SMEARED INK rubber stamp
I used silver staz_on ink.

Make sure to head on over toSMEARED INK and get all of the rubber and digis your heart desires before they are all gone.

Friday, April 24, 2015

Poor Shell, whose turn it is today is stuck in her car that refuses to take her home.

She'll add all the details about this gorgeous ATC later on tonight.

Until then you'll just have to admire the picture :)

Thank you BD for posing this for me. I had so much fun making this ATC, I started by colouring the stamp with a mix of stampin up markers and distress ink pens. I then stamped that onto some white cars, that was then layered onto some blue card with a few strips of washi tape. The rubber set I used for this was the letterbox one. There is just under a week now to get your entries in for this month.

Thursday, April 23, 2015

I found this fabulous Dragon image and just had to make something with it, it's called Skull Keeper and it was so much fun to color in many different green shades and I added glitter and pearl maker for the eyes. Did some shading on the skulls too, that was fun! =)Just found papers that matched and hopefully makes the dragon stand out a little too, so used an Asian inspired paper and a matching background paper from another kit.So hope you will enjoy today's card and join on in the fun in our Anything Goes challenge here at Smudgy Antics! =) Don't forget to use a Smeared Ink image on your creation! =)

I love notebooks of all kinds. So when I sat down and started stamping, it just so turned out to be a notebook. I have used stamps from the Unmounted Rubber sets Voodoo and Morte. Background Letterbox is a Current Rubber Club Stamp set.

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

I hope everyone is having a great week so far! Here's my DT inspiration for you today!

I've had this very versatile Tombow "store display" marker holder in my studio for many years. I'm calling it a pencil holder for want of a better word but I use it daily for various purposes like to stand projects in while they dry or carry some coloured pencils or markers to my desk. I've been wanting to do 'something' to pretty it up and I finally did it, haha! It's also the perfect compliment to my 2015 daily planner I altered earlier this year!

Please stop by my blog, LeighSBDesigns, for more info on my project!
I hope I've inspired you to come and play in our monthly challenges ;0) The link to our current challenge is over there in the left side bar!

April 16th was our monthly Members Blog Hop and this month's theme was "Decorate a Real Egg". Start your hop on my blog if you missed it coz all the creations were eggstra-special!
This is the egg sculpture I made using a real chicken egg and wish bone!

Sunday, April 19, 2015

So I have been mixing it up a bit recently. And I have been loving it. Try something new and unexpected. Believe me, it's so fun to be able to look at a new side of your creativity. I have been going crazy with stamping on leather. I have made a whole bunch out of them but you are going to have to keep checking back to see if I post one. You never know when it's going to happen.
Don't limit yourself to materials! Use canvas, denim, cotton, anything you have. Sew it all yourself or buy it already made. Or even better spice up something you already have around the house. (Hu Shell) Ok so here is my fun little coin purse featuring one of the beautiful butterflies from the Specimen Jar rubber set.

See you all next week. And don't forget to get your entries in for the current challenge. Link it up and have fun.

Saturday, April 18, 2015

I have made an ATC to show you as inspiration today.
Started off with tim holtz kraft resist paper that I covered in white distress stain. Then I stamped one of the images from the as death set. Made some splotches with red distress stain and blotted most of it off with a cloth. Added some letter stickers and then heat embossed the atc with super ultra fine powder.

Friday, April 17, 2015

For today's inspiration I decided to create a mixed media piece with some photoshop work thrown in for good measure. I created my background with Ink sprays and scanned into photoshop. I then coloured up the main focal image from The Toxic Ballerina Set available at Smeared Ink. Added in the Toxic Text, printed and mounted onto black mount board ready for framing.

Don't forget to come and join in our monthly Smudgy Antics Challenges which are always "Anything Goes"! The link is over there in the left sidebar. As always don't forget to use at least one Smeared Ink image in your project to be able to enter into the current challenge.

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

For today's inspiration at Smudgy Antics I did some recycling! I made pizza with pinapple rings on yesterday and realized that I could use the tin for today's project.I printed out three grumpies and three sentiments, colored the grumpies in three different colors and shaded them. Then I cut out the sentiments and found a patterned paper to use as the background.I glued everything on the tin and it looks fun, so I'm happy with it! =)Don't forget to be able to enter our Anything goes challenge you have to use atleast one Smeared Ink image in your project! =)

Monday, April 13, 2015

For today's DT inspiration I'm sharing 3 Wonderlandian bookmarks in celebration of National Library week which began on Sunday!
Of course I had to represent one of my favourite books, Alice in Wonderland, and use some of my favourite Smeared Ink digis from the Wonderland set!

I performed some Photoshop magic and combined pages scanned from my Alice in Wonderland books with the images. Pop on over to my blog, LeighSBDesigns, for all the info!

Don't forget to come and join in our monthly Smudgy Antics Challenges which are always "Anything Goes"! The link is over there in the left sidebar.

Thursday, April 9, 2015

Todays Inspiration for you uses an image from Teri Sherman entitled " Emerging " I decided to create a mixed media board. I started with heavy 300gsm cardstock and applied various washes using DecoArt Media fluid acrylics and set aside to dry. I then coloured up the image with copics. I scanned both the image and the background into photoshop. Added my quote and then printed off and attached to the chipboard base. Corners rounded and then inked the edges with black.

Hope this has inspired you to join with our current Anything Goes Challenge. Just remember to use a smeared ink image on your project. Thanks for stopping by.

Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Time to inspire you all here at Smudgy Antics with a little zentangle love!These images are made by Leigh Snaith-Burton and are unmounted rubberstamps called Autumn's Pencil! I thought they could show the love between a mum and her baby and a spring card instead of Autumn! =)The images are both colored with promarkers, then I added some white highlights with my white pen. The little cat is raised on 3D pillows and I added half pearls and glitter letters to the background, I also chalked the edges of the paper with a brown ink pad. The patterned papers are from a scrapbook club I used to be a member in.Hope you will all be inspired to join in our "Anything Goes" challenge this month, just remember to use atleast one Smeared Ink image on your project to be able to join in on the fun! =)

The above photo was Bunny Blue's farewell party, he's off on his travels to my Sister ;0)

Here's the cute and rather clever Easter card I made her that is the perfect presentation card for a domino magnet. What's clever about it you ask? Well, you see the domino is rather heavy and a regular card just falls forward when you try to stand it up. I cut the bottom edge of the back of the card at an angle so that it leans backwards like an easel when you stand it up. No more head dives for Bunny Blue! Pop on over to my DominoART blog if you'd like to know the 2nd clever part of the card, how to actually add the domino magnet to the front ;0)

I hope I've inspired you to come and play in our challenges! The April one just started so there's plenty of time to join the fun - Smudgy Antics Challenge for April

Smudgy Antics Challenges

Our fabulous Smeared Ink DT

*To participate, you must make a NEW project that features at least 1 STAMPED or DIGI IMAGE... FROM SMEARED INK ,add it to the post using the Inlinkz linky. Any other supplies and images may be used. Your link MUST take us directly to your project on a PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE blog or website, or it will be disqualified - so please make sure you're linking to your actual post. It must be linked by midnight Pacific Time on the scheduled end date, which will be three days before the end of the month. You must use a new project; back-linking is NOT allowed.

*Your project can be anything (card, scrapbook page, mixed media, altered or 3-D item, etc) as long as it is handmade and stamped somewhere with at least 1 rubber or digital stamp....from SMEARED INK . We have taken into consideration our digital artist fans and will be allowing all-digi projects. Please note that while collage sheet images can be used in your project, the collage image does NOT count as a stamped image. You still need to use a rubber or digital stamp somewhere on your project. Feel free to think outside the box and have fun with your project! We are all about looking at things differently and look forward to the variety of projects and mediums we are sure to see.

*You can only enter the challenge and qualify for a prize if you are, or become, a follower of the Smudgy Antics blog. Also, you must mention Smudgy Antics in your blog post and provide a link to our blog. This helps others to find us so they may play along as well.

*Multiple projects are allowed as long as each project follows the rules. Each project must be linked individually into the Inlinkz linky tool and must link to it's own individual blog post in order to be considered as separate entries. (Multiple projects in one blog post will be considered as 1 entry).

*The winner will be chosen by RANDOM DRAW and will be revealed on the last day of the month. The winner will get BOTH the prize and a winner's blog button to display on their blog. A TOP 3 will be voted for by the DT and shall get a WINNERS BLOG BUTTON... Only the best projects will win TOP 3 so bring your A-game!